Easy Brownie Christmas Tree Treats
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Christmas baking just got sweeter & easier with these Easy Brownie Christmas Tree Treats! Impress your family & friends with this festive treat with brownies & buttercream frosting!
More fun Christmas Ideas? 40 Christmas Tree Desserts, Christmas Tree Pull Apart Cupcakes Cake and these Christmas Chocolate Chip Cookies and these 60 Easy No Bake Christmas Treats for starters!
Why You’ll Love These Easy Brownie Christmas Tree Treats
Prepare to be dazzled by these charming little trees crafted from brownies and made extra special with sprinkles and buttercream frosting. Impress your family and friends this season with these adorable treats that are a breeze to make.
All you really need is a boxed or homemade brownie recipe for a 9×13″ baking pan and buttercream frosting, the same idea, store-bought tub of frosting or make it homemade, which I prefer. Color your frostings if you want to make these super festive looking!
Chocolate brownies and buttercream frosting are a dream together! No one can resist these cute mini desserts! Tis the season to get creative with your holiday baking this year with these festive and delicious Easy Brownie Christmas Tree Treats!
Brownie Christmas Tree Treats Make the Holidays Complete!
In making these festive Easy Brownie Christmas Tree Treats, you can make a special holiday memory that will last for years to come, especially when you kids help. Let them pop on the sprinkles, and you create a yummy and easy dessert for all ages.
I decorated mine with an assortment of different sprinkles for each of the tree designs to give you an idea this is just the start of what you can come up! Do them all different, all the same or split them up like I did, 4 different styles, white, pink, green and light turquoise with coordinating sprinkles!
It’s cutting the brownie trees that might be your biggest challenge, so check out the tutorial picture! I got 14 nice-sized brownies, and then there were brownie scraps leftover! YESSS! Brownies are my favorite dessert in the whole world!
These Easy Brownie Christmas Trees might be the holiday-saving treat you need, and you’ll want to make them year after year. So don your Santa hat, turn up the festive tunes, and get baking! Bring them on!
Ingredients You Need
- Baked brownies – You can either make your favorite homemade brownie recipe you can make boxed brownies
for a 9×13 pan size.
- Buttercream Frosting – Use homemade buttercream frosting or store-bought frosting
, our homemade frosting recipe is super easy!
- Food coloring
for the frosting
- Festive Christmas sprinkles
or candies – Use whatever sprinkles you think would make the best edible Christmas tree decorations for you cute little trees!
How to Make Christmas Tree Brownies
- Make your homemade brownies or boxed brownies and let them cool completely. Once they are cooled, cut them into triangles, whatever size you want, below is a diagram how I cut mine. Make the frosting or use store bought frosting for the next step
Buttercream Frosting Recipe & Decorating
- powdered sugar
- unsalted butter, room temperature
- vanilla extract
- heavy whipping cream or milk of choice
- salt
- food coloring
- Sprinkles
How to Make Homemade Buttercream Frosting for Christmas Tree Brownie Treats
- Whip the butter about a minute using a hand or stand mixer.
- Add in the confectioner’s sugar in several batches beating on low after each addition. Scrape the bowl down and repeat the process.
- Add a tablespoon of the cream while mixing on low then add the vanilla.
- Beat until you have an even, fluffy consistency. You can add more cream or milk if desired for a thinner consistency.
- Color the frosting if desired, using food coloring.
How to Decorate Christmas Tree Brownies
- Frost brownies with an offset spatula or if you want to get fancy, use a star shaped tip with a pastry bag and start at the top of the brownie and do zig zig back and forth across the brownies all the way down to the bottom.
- Add sprinkles or candies after doing a few, as the frosting will start drying and that way the sprinkles/candies will stick to the frosting.
- Once they are decorated, let the frosting firm up and then place the brownie trees in an airtight container for up to 3-4 days.
The Christmas tree brownies are perfect for Christmas parties and gifting to friends and family and they taste super yummy!
Storing Brownie Christmas Tree Treats
Store brownies in an airtight container for up to 3-4 days. Perfect to make ahead or the same day!
Your family and friends will be impressed by your creative baking skills this holiday season with these easy Christmas tree brownies!
Perfect for parties and gatherings, these delectable little treats will be hard to resist and sure to make lasting memories.
More Festive Desserts You’ll Love
- Christmas Cookie Bars
- Delicious Oreo Brownies with Oreo Frosting
- Crumbl Sugar Cookies Recipe
- German Chocolate Brownies
- Easy Strawberry White Chocolate Fudge
- Easy Cosmic Chocolate Cookies
- Grinch Sugar Cookies
Easy Brownie Christmas Tree Treats
Ingredients
Brownies
- Boxed Brownies baked in 9x13 pan or homemade brownies cut into christmas tree shapes or triangles
Homemade Buttercream Frosting or use store-bought vanilla frosting
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Food coloring if you want to make colored frosting
Decorating
- Festive sprinkles or candies
Instructions
How to Make Christmas Tree Brownies
- Make brownies, homemade or boxed version for 9x13 pan.
- Line a 9x13 pan with parchment paper and spray with non stick cooking spray. Make your brownies and let them cool completely. Once they are cooled, cut them into triangles, whatever size you want, below is a diagram how I cut mine.
To Make the Buttercream Frosting or use Store Bought Vanilla Frosting
- Make the frosting or use store bought frosting.
- Whip the butter about a minute using a hand or stand mixer.
- Add in the confectioner’s sugar in several batches beating on low after each addition. Scrape the bowl down and repeat the process.
- Add a tablespoon of the cream while mixing on low then add the vanilla.
- Beat until you have an even, fluffy consistency. You can add more cream or milk if desired for a thinner consistency.
- Color the frosting if desired, using food coloring.
How to Decorate Trees
- Frost brownies with an offset spatula or if you want to get fancy, use a star shaped tip with a pastry bag and start at the top of the brownie and do zig zig back and forth across the brownies all the way down to the bottom.
- Add festive sprinkles, crushed candy canes, m&m candies or chocolate chips after doing a few, as the frosting will start drying and that way the sprinkles/candies will stick to the frosting.
- Once they are decorated, let the frosting firm up and then place the brownie trees in an airtight container for up to 3-4 days.
- The treats are perfect for Christmas parties and gifting to friends and family and they taste super yummy!
There is a diagram in the post how I cut them Cathy, but you can cut them any way you like, just so you get a long triangle look to them! Enjoy!
I don’t see the diagram of how you cut yours. I’m about to mix and bake mine.
So happy to hear they were a huge hit Claire! Thank you so much for letting me know!
I made these over the holidays and they were a huge hit! Everyone loved them. Thanks for sharing!
Hmm…that’s a hard choice! Thank you for the compliment and wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Wonder if these could beat your Melting Snowmen ( become my son’s favourite last year 🙂 )